The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-11
Religious Notes.

C. II. Spurgeon Giving to God is no loss; it
is putting your substance in the best bank
Terrence: take it to he maxim of the
greatest utility in lfe-not TO do nything too
much.
Bovee sound discretion is not much in
Dictated by never making a mistake by never
repeating it.
Carlyle: Our grand business is not to see
what lies dimly at distance, but to do what
hes clearly at hand.
Better to stem with heart and hand
The roaring tide of life than lie
Unmindful on its fowery strand
OF Gods occasions drifting by.
w hitter.
If Satan ever laughs it must be at hypocrites
They are the greatest dupes he has. They serve
him better than any others. but receive no wages.
Nay, what is still more extraordinary, theF sub
NIT TO greater Notifications than the sIncerest
Christians.
Take this, o grievng mother. to thy heart,
And lett calm thee. fer our Christ is sweet
He knows the mother heart; remember this:
The son of no good mother will be part
From her forever; for II is not meet
A mother from her child should rest in bliss.
Maurice Il. Egan.
United Presbyterian: The outlook of the
church is always bright to those who them
selves bright: it's failing power and losing eff
cheney are in the i'm ag atoms of such as refuse
to see the opposite Real faith. unclouded by
any kind of morbidness gets world of help
from the promises of constant increase.
That the new Sunday law in Connecticut
amounts to something aud has already accom-
plished something nobody will deny. says the
Congregationaist 1t is slight thing to stop
excursion trains. and release, in great measure,
$1,000 employees from work. or the liability to be
called on to work. for railroad corporations on
Sunday.
A striking instance of unsociability at church
is cited by writer to the Golden Rule. A lady
who went to church of her denomination in
the strange city to which she had recently
moved, took half pew for the use of her little
family. For year and half she attended
regularly, but was never spoken to during all
nat me " "a Q6 in ha nth hal 0f
pew, who was a member of the church.
The subject of church union is considered in
a practical manner by the Christian Com mon
wealth of London, which says "While we are
sure that the lines and fences of church policy
are SO many barriers to the spread of saving
truth, yet we have no confident expectation
that all these artificial hurdles will be pulled up
by any sudden spasm of spiritual impulse. 1t
may be that the way back to unity will be at
first by the obliteration of the minor divisions"
Scotland, which used to be most strict in the
observance of the Sabbath. seems to be falling
into lax ways A Scottish clergyman of Leith
recently denounced the doctors and university
professors for trying to destroy the character of
the Sabbath, and said that the mutitudes
aiming to make it more like bank holiday than
a day for divine worship. What could high
heaven think" ne asked, Ito a placard
facing the populace all along the streets bearing
the words Last excursion for the season to
Der wick on Tweed?'"
The Religious Herald is forcibly impressed
with the hap-hazard pulpit supplies during
the vacation of the pastors An inferior
grade of preaching is often obtained when
some wandering or visiting clergyman Is
employed, who is away for rest and
recreation and whose chief interest is to
cure the perquisites to meet his vacation
penses This mode of operation is unwlse. It
generally lessons the attendance at church and
weakens the religious interest. 1t is also I'M
necessary, for, with little care and previous
outlook on the part of the pastor and the com
mittee of supply exchanges might be made a
continuous supply by the same minister secured
that would be for the interest, profit and spr-
itual edification of all
Central Christian Advocate: We allow the
Sabbath to dawn engrossed with worldly
thoughts and feelings. It is the Sabbath day,
but not Sabbath to souls. Instead Of
turning our attention from the affairs that have
so engrossed during the week. and by ap-
propriate reflection and earnest prayer seeking
to arrest the current on which we have been
borne and to receive due preparation for the
worship of God, we begin the Sabbath with no
spiritual aims aspirations Our business
pursuits have been suspended but our thoughts.
are running in the ruts of the past week.
employed III projecting schemes for the
ensuing week How can the truth. under such
impress hearts9 How can
we be more than hearers only" of the wordl
While King William at battle in Flanders,
was giving orders in the thickest of the fight, he
saw, to his surprise, among his staff Michael
Godfrey, a merchant of London. and deputy
governor of the Bank of England, who had thus
exposed himself in order TO crafty his curiosity.
The king, riding to him. said, ''Sir, you
ought not to run these hazards; you not
soldier. you can be of no use here" ''Sire,"
your Majesty" Not So" said William, Il am
here where it is my duty to be- and NAV, with
ont presumption, commit my life to Gods keep
ing; but you" Tne sentence needed no COM
plerion. for at that very moment a cannon ball
laid Godfrey lifeless at the kings feet. He hat.
been wise had he restricted himself to the ways
of his calling and duty.